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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2033898, member: 19463&quot;]True but I believe they were pretty good at weighing coin flans so you can tell a ragged flan from a post mint damaged one by weight.&nbsp; Mine is 0.74g and enough porosity to explain away the .05g.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In some cases we see a half animal to indicate a half fraction but I don&#039;t think this is the case here.&nbsp; The Greeks often paid attention to how an animal fit on the flan so we get heads turned back or something that minimizes the wasted surface space.&nbsp; Why the pig got legs but the lion didn&#039;t, I can not even guess.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]370427[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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